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into thousands of minute fissures. Parts of it are somewhat softer
being covered with a hollow crust impregnated with salts, but even this
is much harder than the shorn ordinarily met with. A horse’s font
just cuts into it above the shoe with a cracking noise. The soil it
is said does not absorb water, and that the Lora flood water lodges on
i until dried by evaporation. Water is said to lie over the Hamun
or the three winter months, and for one month subsequently the Hamnn
is impassable. During the remaining eight months the direct road
any°macadarnized road. generaUy WhiCh !S “ 8 ° 0d «
tK f 2 he L ° ra ' vater 15 i ud g in g from appearance of the surface of
the Hamun any water which might be got by digging would be salt fn
cross,ng the Hamun some landmark is essential for Bering a straight
course, as Chagai is not visible at any great distance, and there is^io
regular track. In making Chaga, from Thai a course half-way between
the conical peaks of Maharan, and Drumiltin in the hills west of cS
\vill fetch it. Distance 30 miles. A strip of good grass, 2 miles wide
nnes the western edge of the Hamun before reaching Chagai. '
described" 0 ^ Chagai ° Ver t J hi5 - above
mile from Thai to Y a ™ the^oTof Vekh^R 03 . 11 branc '’ es
is one well (but blocked up in October 188^ and tv.”’ Whe T re l here
sxs.rsr rr>
lowed by Lockwood in March, who naturally’ after ww/ Wa / foi i
abundant water in roadside pools. All these th^ee rLd" 1118
to be impracticable for animals during win^r rains th^
skirting the hamun becoming again practicable the' cn I T Zar f a
weather, except for the camel grazing to be found aloLT^Tf ^ *1
there ,s apparently no inducement to^adopt it in preference
road across the Hamun unless f u ? it ^ the direct
the skirt of Hamun, which, judging by Thai and^hW ^ d i? ging al ° ng
extremely probable.” (PelJielEcZZd) 8 ’ " Seem t0 be
HA Lon N c :“ ASHKEL ° R MASHKEL HAMUN.-Lat. 28 » , 5 ' :
Sa A had ar a g „d “tb ^yb^bereerth'e 0 ^ h ° f ^ «
la Tb Ude M nd ,.l Xt , e J ndin8 ,r “ m aLut Long! 6^fiZ Pot e'
b.umfaryl^elongs^o^he Rekls'^and 1 e thev n h S
yieldedJmilitary 8 sZice to the S.rdar otVZl " ^
draTna'gf fZZTsWeV'Frol^ 1 3, r SqUare , n,ileS and
from the Koh-i-Inltan koh [ Am J ^ 0 [ t \ S l T, ra l StreamS come d ^n
and others; from the eU the Lod waters of'fhe Bu^o U ’M Ma, - ik TeZ ” aa